Issue with openvpn service when changing internet connection

dexznrl

Hello,

I'm using OpenVPN to connect to my home server (Debian wheezy)
Windows 8.1 on a laptop.

If I connect from my laptop with tethering via my cellphone or if I'm connected through a cable or wifi outside my apartment the openvpn service automatically connects my computer to my server at home, no problem at all. Stable and fast.

If I don't shut down my computer but put it in power save mode instead and wake it up when I get home it connects to my wifi, receives an IP-address but I can't ping anything in my local network anymore.

I'm a novis on this but it seems to me that my laptop still tries to route everything going to my local network (192.168.60.x) via the VPN even though the VPN is down and I'm already connected to the network without VPN.

If I restart the computer or just restart the service I can reach my network again.

The server has a firewall rule that prohibit my vpn from connecting while I'm at home, I don't want information to pass through the tunnel while inside my network.

Is there any setting I can do on the client to prevent this issue?

Best regards

Johan

dexznrl

Hi again,

I'm still hoping someone have a solution for this issue.
After some more testing I get the following problem:

If I'm connected to one wifi-network and switch over to another wifi-network the connection is lost and not restarted no matter how long I wait.

Someone with a solution?

Below you can find my client conf:

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dev tun
keepalive 10 60
proto udp
remote xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
ns-cert-type server
comp-lzo
verb 3

---

Best regards

Johan

dexznrl

Reply to myself...again!

Problem was solved, or at least somewhat solved.

The settings for keepalive in the client config didn't take for some reason.
But I just set that in the servers config to be pushed to the client and voila!

I have a pretty tight set:

keepalive 1 5

That pings every second to keep the vpn up and running. If ping fail for 5 seconds it reset the connection.

This also solve my problem with the virtualbox network interface after sleep mode.

Best regards and thanks for reading

Johan

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dexznrl wroteReply to myself...again!

sorry .. sometimes posts are over looked.

dexznrl wroteThe settings for keepalive in the client config didn't take for some reason

--keepalive is a specific server side directive .. it automatically pushes ping/ping-restart params to the client (if the client is setup to pull) see your server log for details. Also, check --keepalive in The Manual v23x